[Digikam-users] How to create tag from IPTC?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:15:01PM +0100, Lionel Thevin wrote:
>    Hello
> 
>    I read in
>    [1]http://www.questionsphoto.com/article/144-linux-pour-les-photographes-troisieme-partie
>    "Vous pouvez classer les photos par leur mots-clés (étiquettes) qui seront
>    soient extraites des champs Mots-clés des métadonnées IPTC, soient créées
>    pour les besoins de classement."
>    But I don't know how to do that...
>    Most of my pictures have already the IPTC fields filled, but when I import
>    them in digikam, no tags are created.

For digikam to recognise/use the tags as keywords they have to be in
IPTC Iptc.Application2.Keywords fields.  Data in other IPTC fields
won't be used as tags.

Try dumping out the IPTC data using a utility like exiv2 if it doesn't
seem to be working as you expect.

>    I have checked all item in Configure>Metadata.
>    I am running Ubuntu 8.10 and Digikam 0.9.4
>    Thks in advance.
>    Best regards
> 
>    Lionel
> 
> References
> 
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>    1. http://www.questionsphoto.com/article/144-linux-pour-les-photographes-troisieme-partie

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Chris Green